Chapter 25

Broly naturally couldn't take anyone back to Nappa Star, but Fujimura Taiga could bring the girl back to the Fujimura residence, and Rin Tohsaka came back with them as well.

However, Aoi Zenjou, the mother of the two girls, did not follow; she loved her husband more, and with Tohsaka Tokiomi severely injured by Broly, she teamed up with Kirei Kotomine, whose arm was fractured, to send her husband to the Holy Church in Fuyuki City for treatment.

Just, on the way, they ran into Kiritsugu Emiya and Saber; the Magus Killer had come over long ago and had been lurking on the side, only jumping out to point his gun at the three of them after Broly and Gilgamesh finished their battle.

Under Kiritsugu Emiya's coercion, Kirei Kotomine used a Command Spell to order his own Servant to end his life, counting as the disciple exiting the Holy Grail War along with his master.

Kiritsugu Emiya did not fire; perhaps because Broly took away the two Tohsaka girls, he chose to let these three go.

Back at the Fujimura residence, Broly ate while telling Young Sakura and Rin Tohsaka about being sent back home.

"Eh, Broly-niichan, can't you take me back home with you?"

Broly shook his head, and Young Sakura showed the expression of an abandoned puppy.

"If little Sakura has no home to go to, Onee-chan can take you in."

Fujimura Taiga interjected at this moment, and only then did light return to Young Sakura's eyes.

"I'm about to go back; before I go back, I want to tell you something."

After Broly ate and drank his fill, the time had also come down to the last three minutes.

"What is it?"

Young Sakura and Rin Tohsaka looked over.

"I want to invite you to become members of my Crystal Palace; I wonder if you're willing?"

Broly asked very directly, and the Crystal Palace's prompt also appeared before the two girls.

"I'm willing."

Young Sakura did not hesitate; she didn't know what Crystal was, but she was willing to agree to any request from Broly, directly agreeing, and Broly's Happiness Points thereby reached thirty thousand.

Saved by a boy who carried her away from despair, Young Sakura's happiness at that moment was worth over one hundred fifty Happiness Value.

Plus the original twenty-odd Happiness Value, totaling over one hundred eighty Happiness Value, which converted to over eighteen thousand Happiness Points.

Broly hit the jackpot this time.

"What is the Crystal Palace?"

Rin Tohsaka did ask; at this age she likewise couldn't understand the meaning of Crystal Palace.

"It means truly becoming my wife."

Broly answered this question according to the explanation given by the Crystal Palace.

"Ah, this..."

Rin Tohsaka became somewhat flustered.

Is the topic of "wife" something kids of their age can say? "You're not willing?"

Broly was even more nervous than her; after his violent persuasion of that old geezer, Rin Tohsaka's Happiness Value had risen back to over seventy points; if the girl wasn't willing to join the Crystal Palace, his loss would be huge.

"It's not that I'm unwilling, but can this wait until we grow up?"

Rin Tohsaka's face was a bit red as she asked.

She also had a favorable impression of the boy who fell from the sky and solved her and her sister's troubles.

Even though Broly beat her father right in front of her.

"Can't. I need you to agree right now."

Broly was very anxious.

"Uh, then, then okay."

Rin Tohsaka reluctantly agreed, and Broly's Happiness Points increased by over seven thousand.

"Right, the thing appearing..."

Rin Tohsaka just wanted to ask about the chibi avatar appearing before her, but Broly's return time arrived, and just like when he came, he appeared in a blink and vanished without a trace in a blink.

Only the happiness status shown on the boy's chibi avatar, and the Happiness Points in the upper right corner increasing bit by bit, could prove he had truly come to this world.

"Let me explain to you; the panel appearing before you is the Crystal Palace's subordinate module; only official members of the Crystal Palace can obtain it; the 4/5 behind it is the current number of official Crystal Palace members."

"But there are only three people here."

"There's one more, the daughter of the Emiya residence next door, but I haven't met her either."

"Wait, can a wife be this many?"

"It's too early for kids to talk about this topic; let's continue talking about the Exchange Shop on the side; it records the things Broly has eaten and used.

You can exchange using the Happiness Points produced by Broly, but I don't recommend you exchange for food from his hometown, because that's really hard to eat..."

Fujimura Taiga introduced the usage of the Crystal Palace subordinate module to the two girls, but the current Crystal Palace module is still very simple; it was explained in no more than a couple of sentences.

However, she continued to tell the two about Broly's simple and unadorned, bitter days of hunting and training on Nappa Star.

And discussed the topic of what the two of them wanted to do afterwards: whether to both stay at the Fujimura residence, or only Young Sakura would stay at the Fujimura residence.

Gilgamesh's early retirement caused a huge change in the Fourth Holy Grail War; in the following days the Holy Grail War entered a white-hot phase.

Kiritsugu Emiya, bringing Saber, sought out Sola who was obsessed with Lancer's male beauty; Diarmuid Ua Duibhne got a fair knightly contest, but lost to Artoria due to inferior skill, and returned to the Throne of Heroes amid the woman's weeping.

The King of Conquerors, having made a strategic retreat, came before Artoria who had recovered to peak condition two days later, and proposed a duel to Artoria.

During this, Kiritsugu Emiya wanted to sneak attack and kill Waver, but was discovered in advance by Iskandar.

"If you intend to decide victory by killing Masters, I don't mind either. After all, I have a great army; how about it, want to continue this war that directly bypasses Heroic Spirits to kill Masters?"

Under this threat, Kiritsugu Emiya decisively gave up attacking Masters, entrusting the outcome to Artoria.

However, two fists are no match for four hands; even using all four Command Spells, the King of Knights' Sword of Promised Victory couldn't kill through the King of Conquerors' Ionioi Hetairoi.

Artoria fell under the weapons; the obtainer of the Holy Grail seemed already decided — that is Kenneth's useless student, Waver Velvet.

But something unbearable happened: when Artoria was dragged into a mental landscape by Iskandar, Kirei Kotomine, who had lost Master qualifications, sneak-attacked the Emiya residence and carried off Irisviel, who served as the Lesser Grail.

The purpose was to lure Kiritsugu Emiya over to meet him; like a convergence of fate's threads, the two fought in Fuyuki City's Public Hall, and before the fight finished, Black Mud fell from the sky.

Afterwards, in the Holy Grail's question-and-answer session, Kiritsugu Emiya learned that the miracle he had hoped for did not exist — or rather, a miracle did exist, but that kind of miracle could only be resolved through the slaughter he could understand: only by killing all of humanity could the world attain eternal peace.

Painfully killing the illusory visions of his wife and daughter inside the Holy Grail, Kiritsugu Emiya broke free from the Black Mud's corruption, only to learn of his own Servant's defeat. He wanted to destroy the Holy Grail corrupted by Angra Mainyu, but no longer had the power to do so.

However, Iskandar was a magnanimous king, and his Master, Waver Velvet, also possessed a young man's immaturity and sense of justice. Faced with the corrupted yet still wish-granting Holy Grail that could reach the Root, this duo made the decision to destroy the Holy Grail — a decision other ordinary magi would find difficult to make.

The Holy Grail was destroyed, but a portion of Angra Mainyu still flowed out through the connection between the Holy Grail and reality. Fuyuki City was forced to suffer an unexpected earthquake, and many people died.

Several days later, Kiritsugu Emiya adopted a boy who had lost all his memories and identity, and named him Shirou Emiya.

And not long after the Holy Grail Ritual ended, Waver brought a burly man bearing Angra Mainyu's curse back to the Clock Tower, having him return in the capacity of a tutor.

And in order to research magecraft to remove the curse, he holed up in the library searching for materials everywhere, until Kenneth sent people to find him.

Due to a mysterious ritual, a magecraft genius perished, but his disciple stood up, appearing before the public as the victor of the Holy Grail War, inheriting El-Melloi's lordship position at the Clock Tower.

Kenneth and his former student conducted a transaction, using the El-Melloi lordship — an identity that could access various high-level magecraft — in exchange for the protection of the King of Conquerors who had been incarnated by Angra Mainyu's curse.

What, you ask where Matou Kariya went? Regrettably, during the Holy Grail War, when he ordered his own Servant to kill Matou Zouken, he was killed by the dying Matou Zouken detonating the Crest Worms inside his body.

And Tohsaka Tokiomi, after his injuries healed, could be considered to have fulfilled a father's responsibility: he taught his eldest daughter magecraft, and found a new magecraft inheritance for his younger daughter. But regrettably, only Rin Tohsaka forgave him, while Matou Sakura continued living at the Fujimura household.

Regarding this, the elegant man could only helplessly, through Fujimura Taiga, hand over the Virtual Attribute magecraft inheritance he had purchased at great cost to his younger daughter.

Through this, Fujimura Taiga came into contact with magecraft. Although she lacked outstanding magecraft talent, she still learned a trick or two from Tohsaka Tokiomi, becoming a third-rate magus — that is, a magus without a family inheritance.

One month after the war, Kiritsugu Emiya went to Germany to visit his biological daughter, but was refused entry by the Einzbern Family. The reason was that he had not brought back the Holy Grail this time; no matter how he explained, it was useless. Directly attacking the homunculus family was also unrealistic.

Afterwards, Kiritsugu Emiya began searching for traces of Broly, this cheap son-in-law, but learned from the neighbors that the boy had returned to his own world. Helpless, he could only accept the result of being separated from his daughter.

Kirei Kotomine was heavily injured; he did not die but was crippled. Kirei Risei, advanced in years, abdicated the position of priest at the Fuyuki City Holy Church to his son.

Simultaneously, leveraging the Tohsaka Family's connections, he brought over the monastery's granddaughter, letting her become the apprentice nun caring for Kirei Kotomine.

Fuyuki City quieted down, yet seemed not quiet at all — because Gilgamesh and Broly's showdown let the world know of the Holy Grail's existence, and also know of the Heroic Spirits' power.

Although the Holy Grail was destroyed, human desire still exists; and as long as human desire exists, the omnipotent wish-granting machine remains something people yearn for.

Countless spies poured into Fuyuki City — whether from countries around the world, or from the magecraft world. With the old worm no longer holding down the fort, the new family head Matou Byakuya magnanimously sold off his family's magecraft inheritance, as well as some knowledge involving the Holy Grail's Command Spell system.

The Matou Family's financial situation changed; Matou Shinji thus became a rich second-generation, but this came with his father Matou Byakuya leaving Japan to settle in some small European country.

Crossing over is a very fast process; in the blink of an eye, Broly returned to Planet Nappa.

Looking at the familiar cave home, Broly had a feeling as if a lifetime had passed.

The spider eggs from before his departure were already gone; presumably they were eaten by his father.

Thinking of his old man father whom he hadn't seen for many days, Broly — who had just finished beating up another world's old man father — surprisingly felt a bit of longing.

Walking out of the cave, flying to a stretch of wilderness, Broly began raising his Ki, causing a storm to whip up in the vicinity.

Not long after the storm kicked up, Paragus, wearing a Scouter, flew in from the distant horizon. Upon seeing the boy in the storm, he immediately accelerated his flight speed.

"Broly, where have you been these past days?"

Arriving here, Paragus asked with some excitement.

On Planet Nappa, they father and son were the strongest hunters, but being the strongest hunters did not mean they would not be injured during the hunt, or even die.

Just like ordinary humans can bare-handedly kill many beasts, but if they want to bare-handedly hunt beasts, they cannot guarantee they won't get injured.

During these days when Broly suddenly disappeared, Paragus was very anxious. He worried his son had met with an accident, and searched all over this planet.

"I went to another world."

Seeing Paragus's excited appearance, feeling some concern from the other party, Broly's heart inexplicably warmed a little, and he answered the question honestly.

"If you don't want to say it, you don't have to. Just remember to tell me beforehand if you go to other places in the future."

Hearing this, Paragus was somewhat speechless, but since his missing son had now appeared safe and sound, he didn't want to pry too much into Broly.

"I'm not lying."

Broly furrowed his small brows and protested.

"Whatever you say."

Paragus didn't want to argue with his son about this.

"I really didn't lie."

Broly said again.

"I believe you."

Broly got a bit angry, and threw a punch at Paragus.

"Knew it would be like this."

Paragus blocked his son's punch, sighed, and counterattacked with a backhand punch to his son's cheek.

The Saiyan father and son on Planet Nappa, reunited for less than ten sentences, directly started brawling.

Their battle produced sonic booms; the ground was plowed into dozens of gullies, finally ending with Paragus being stomped into the ground by Broly.

"I said, I didn't lie."

"I also said, I believe you."

"Hm."

Only after stomping his father Paragus into the ground did Broly finally believe his words.

And the clothes on his body, tattered from being struck by lightning in the Type-Moon World, were finally completely destroyed in the fight just now.

"Father, this is the Katsudon I earned in the other world. Have a taste."

Broly exchanged for a Katsudon from the Crystal Palace and handed it to Paragus, who had climbed up from the ground.

"Eh?!"

Smelling the Katsudon's aroma, Paragus's eyes instantly widened.

Just now he simply couldn't see clearly where Broly had pulled this fragrant thing out from.

"Son, what you said just now — could it be true?"

Broly: "?!"

As expected, after eating, Paragus was beaten up by his own son again.

(Chapter End)